Word: discern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons for black disaffection are easy to discern. For one thing, blacks have suffered badly during the current economic slump. Their jobless rate of 18.8% is almost double the general level. The Reagan Administration's conservative rhetoric, combined with its assaults on Big Government, activist courts and social welfare programs, have been interpreted by blacks as covert attempts to undermine the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration...
...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
...HAVE TO SCRATCH very hard at the wrinkled brown skin of the summer's most adored cultural hero to find the skeleton of an old superstar. Even the advertising campaign for "E. T." hints coyly at a Significant Parallel for sharp-eyed moviegoers to discern: that now-famous elongated finger stretching down from the heavens to point at a human finger reaching up from the earth. Remind you of any famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect...
...save her family from imminent death; she falls down a hole and into a world of effulgent psychedelia. The Bluth artists boast that more than 600 colors were used in the 1.5 million drawings that compose this 82-min. adventure. The eye of a Douanier Rousseau might discern each hue; others can simply open their eyes, and their mouths, in appreciative pleasure...
...centuries monks followed unchanging, intricate patterns of prayer and work while withdrawing from the world to try to discern God in their own lives. Seeking the same goal, the brothers of Weston have developed new forms of prayer and work that draw them into the outside world in ways uncharacteristic of contemplative monks. Small and simple, a fledgling beside centuries-old Benedictine monasteries, Weston Priory has become a beacon of new directions in monasticism since its founding in 1953 by German-born Abbot Leo Rudloff. At the time, Rudloff, who also headed the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem...